The Ivory tusks are actually massive teeth (incisors) that protrude well beyond the mouths of elephants with approximately ...

Many key differences separate African elephant from Asian elephants. Not only are they found in completely separate parts of the world, but they live in different habitats as well. The African ...

The tusks are 10 to 25 inches long in the boars and smaller in the sows. Read here to learn more about the warthog. The ...

Previously, researchers inferred that mammoths, the extinct relatives of modern elephants, might have experienced musth due to the discovery of broken tusk tips and other skeletal injuries ...

Musth, a time of heightened testosterone levels and aggression in male elephants related to reproduction, has now been identified in woolly mammoth tusks. Remarkably, this is the first time ...

Tusks are continuously growing incisors. Typically, adult elephant teeth comprise 12 premolars, 12 molars, and two tusks. These twin teeth are composed of four layers, the outermost being the ...

Hunting gave elephants that didn’t grow tusks a biological advantage in Gorongosa. Recent figures suggest that about a third of younger females—the generation born after the war ended in 1992 ...

Thirty large mammal specialists traveled from South Africa, India and other zoos across America last week to perform the last phase of tusk removal surgery for Ali, a 34-year-old elephant at the ...

The tusk was found near a kibbutz on the central plain running parallel to Israel's Mediterranean coast. But half a million years ago, when the ancient elephant died, the now-arid terrain was ...